Magneto-optical surveys of geometrically frustrated magnets in ultra-high magnetic fields

Orateur : A. MIYATA (Institute for solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan)

Geometrically frustrated magnets have attracted considerable attention, because frustrated states are very sensitive to any type of perturbations and would exhibit a rich variety of magnetic phases depending on the temperature and the magnetic field. In my talk , I will explain how to generate ultra-high magnetic fields above 100 T and its application into the magneto-optical measurements of typical 3D frustrated magnets, Cr spinel oxides. In these compounds, a spin-lattice coupling plays a crucial role and induces rich magnetic phases such as a robust 1/2 plateau phase [1, 2]. Magneto-optical measurements under ultra-high magnetic fields have enabled us to investigate their magnetic phases up to a fully polarized phase. As a result, novel magnetic phase was observed prior to a fully polarized phase [3], which can not be explained by the conventional theory. [1] H. Ueda et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 047202 (2005). [2] K. Penc et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 197203 (2004). [3] A. Miyata et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 207203 (2011).

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